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Résumé :
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This book contains a detailed synthesis of our current understanding of the patterns of organisation of bird communities and of the factors, such as competition, predation, past history, climate, habitat and disturbance, that may determine them, drawing from studies from all over the world. It discusses the ways in which bird community patterns have been interpreted. It describes how ecologists have gone about identifying the factors believed to influence the patterns of organisation of bird communities and examines how the complexity and variability of natural environments may influence efforts to discern and understand the nature of these communities. It is divided into the following chapters: Part I Interpreting community patterns : process hypotheses 1- Competition 2 - A case study : interactions among nectativores 3 - Beyond competition: other factors influencing community structure Part II Community variation in time and space 4 - Temporal variation of communities 5 - Spatial patchiness and scale Part III Prospects 6 - Concluding comments : future directions in avian community ecology
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